Pages: 172
Year: 2008
Category: Literature, Short Stories
Dimensions: 210 x 148 mm
This collection of 47 parables and “flash fictions” can be
described as follows: The dream-like; the waking fantasy; the reverie;
the parable that instructs; the story that informs; the story that
provokes the underbelly of consciousness; the story that becomes a slip
of the mind; the story that registers alarm; the story that registers
ease; the dream that illuminates the waking eye; the dream that gives
voice to the silenced tongue; the dream that brings shivers; the dream
that brings orgasm; the parable that offers a path out of the dark
confusion of crisis; the dream that is light as a laugh; the dream that
saves the dreamer.
Price range: £17.00 through £18.00
About the author
ALLAN KOLSKI HORWITZ was born in 1952 in Vryburg, South Africa but grew
up in Cape Town. Between 1974 and 1985 he lived in the Middle East,
Europe and North America, returning to live in Johannesburg in 1986.
Since then he has worked as an organiser and educator in the trade union
and social housing movements. He is a writer in various genres as well
as being a songwriter and singer. Since leaving full-time employment in
the trade unions in 2009, he continues on an ad hoc with his work as an
educator and activist. He is a member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry
performance group and of the Botsotso Publishing editorial board.
